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Building On Observations, Documentary Analysis And Over Seventy Interviews With Both Torture Victims And Transitional Justice Workers This Book Explores How Torture Was Used, Suffered And Resisted In Timor-leste. The Author Investigates The Extent To Which Transitional Justice Institutions Have Provided Justice For Torture Victims. She Illustrates How Truth Commissions And International Courts Operate Together And Reflecting On Their Successes And Weaknesses With Reference To Wider Social, Political And Economic Conditions. Stanley Also Details Victims' Experiences Of Torture And Highlights How They Experience Life In The Newly Built State Of Timor-leste. Tracking The Past, Present And Future Of Human Rights, Truth And Justice For Victims In Timor-leste, Torture, Truth And Justice Will Be Of Interest To Students, Professionals And Scholars Of Asian Studies, International Studies, Human Rights And Social Policy.--jacket. Acknowledgements -- List Of Abbreviations And Other Terms -- Introduction -- The International Context -- Book Overview -- The Research Context -- Taking A Critical Approach To Human Rights Research -- Communicating The Pain Of Torture -- Breaking Silence Through Stories -- The Research Process -- The Chapters -- Contextualizing Torture -- The Historical Use Of State Torture -- Managing And Legitimizing Torture -- Torture Victims And Status -- Class -- Race -- Gender -- Further Status Disparities -- Torture's Aftermath -- Conclusion -- Introducing Justice -- Globalization, Human Rights And The State -- Recognition -- Redistribution -- Structural Injustice -- Obscuring The Structural Landscape -- Participation -- Misframing -- Capabilities -- Institutional Frameworks -- Conclusion: Working Towards Status Parity -- Transitional Justice -- The Rise Of Transitional Justice -- Trials And Truth Commissions -- Providing Recognition -- Inhibiting Recognition -- Problems Of The Institutional Frame. Problems Of Participation -- Promoting Redistribution -- Impeding Redistribution -- Conclusion -- Torture In Timor-leste -- General Overview -- Torturers And Their Motives -- The Role Of Udt And Fretilin In Torture -- Indonesian Torture -- The Militias -- The Intelligence Networks Underpinning Torture -- Experiencing Torture -- Torture As One Violation Among Many -- Dealing With Torture -- Conclusion -- Entrenching Criminal Injustice -- Securing Recognition For Torture Victims -- Limiting Recognition: The Serious Crimes Process -- Restrictive Rules And Decisions -- Institutional Incapacity -- Providing Political Cover -- Embedding Impunity: The Ad Hoc Courts In Jakarta -- Creating Othering -- Practices Of Exclusion -- Institutional Distancing -- Limiting And Ignoring Local Capacities -- Reflecting And Deepening Structural Inequalities -- Consolidating Global Inequalities Of Power -- Conclusion: The Continuation Of Injustice -- Justice In Truthtelling? -- Connecting Participation To Recognition. Introducing Community Reconciliation Processes -- Problems Of Participation -- Victim's Capabilities -- Strategic Decision-making By Victims -- The Distancing From And The Management Of Crp -- Placing Institutional Mandates Ahead Of Individual Needs -- Cavr's Connection To Criminal Justice -- The Limits On Recognition -- Setting The Ground For Redistributive Justice -- The Turn To Friendship -- Conclusion -- The Continuation Of Violence And Insecurity -- Crafting The State Of Timor-leste -- Participatory Injustices -- A Limited Recognition Of Historical Conflict -- Institutional Incapacity And Further Violations -- Embedding Global Economic Inequalities -- Strategic State-building: In Whose Interests? -- The Personal Realities Of Surviving Torture -- Conclusion -- Looking To The Future -- Transitional Justice From Below -- Reflecting Torture -- The Convergence Of Injustices -- Rethinking Transitional Justice -- Towards Social Change -- Appendix: Recognizing Torture In The Serious Crimes Process -- Bibliography. Elizabeth Stanley. Series Numbered Retrospectively. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [169]-201) And Index.